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Saturday, April 30, 2016

US Ambassador to Ukraine Gives Nazis Green Light

US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt on Friday made a trip to Mariupol in eastern Ukraine to praise the May 9, 2014 neo-Nazi battalion shooting of unarmed people in Mariupol.

Pyatt is the other person in the now famous phone call with Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, when she told the ambassador who the US was supporting to lead the 'new' Ukrainian government after the US sponsored coup d'etat in Kiev. Nuland told Pyatt, "Fuck the EU".

The events in Mariupol, Donetsk region (when neo-Nazi Azov fighters shot at a peaceful demonstration of residents on May 9, 2014) were hailed by Pyatt as an example of the struggle against the “Russian world” for all of Donbass during his meeting with representatives of the local government.

May 9 is a holiday that commemorates the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union at the end of Second World War, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. (25 million Soviet citizens were killed fighting the Hitler Army.) It's obvious that the US is trying to erase this history inside of Ukraine by encouraging the current US sponsored puppet regime in Kiev to use their neo-Nazi battalions to suppress any peaceful marches or assemblies that gather to remember the defeat of Hitler's forces.

Below is a short video that shows a bit of the May 9, 2014 events in Mariupol where the neo-Nazis broke up peaceful holiday events. When the unarmed residents tried to chase the Nazis out of town they turned and fired on the peaceful people wounding and killing some unknown number of them.

Amazingly these are the very events that Pyatt was celebrating with the 'authorities' in Mariupol. The US ambassador, appointed under the Democrat administration of Obama, is giving the green light to Kiev to continue this violent suppression of the people both on May 2 in Odessa and throughout the country on May 9 when people attempt to celebrate the holiday to remember the defeat of Hitler.

Armed Military Arrives in Gangjeong

As a group of Navy soldiers go through Gangjeong village [Jeju Island, South Korea] on
April 28, carrying assault rifles with their fingers on the trigger,
ready to shoot the gun, Gangjeong residents are protesting. Villagers
just want peace, living in their village without fear.

Drop the Navy and Samsung construction division demanded damage lawsuit against the village! Don't walk around Gangjeong in military uniform!! Close the Navy base!

French Oppose Corporate Trade Deal

Workers in Paris sparked violent protest, expressing outrage over a
proposed law that would put an end to many workers’ rights and
regulations. Demonstrators claimed the proposals would benefit big
corporations at the expense of workers, particularly on issues of
decreased wages and increased work hours – protections they say must
stay in place with the looming TTIP trade deal. RT America’s Manila Chan
reports.

Turkey's Role in Supporting ISIS

An RT Documentary crew filming in northern Syria has seen Islamic State
(IS, ISIS/ISIL) documents abandoned by retreating terrorists and found
by the Kurds that, along with captured IS recruits, provide a stunning
insight into the ISIS oil trade.

Only ten days after the town of
Shaddadi in Syrian Kurdistan was liberated from the ISIS militants, an
RT film crew followed Kurdish soldiers around houses that had been
abandoned in haste by fleeing jihadists. There, they found documents
shedding light on the ISIS oil trade, jihadist passports with Turkish
entry stamps, an instruction booklet - printed in Turkey - on how to
wage war against the Syrian government, and more.

The areas
surrounding Shaddadi has large natural oil reserves, and until recently,
ISIS militants profited from it, forcing members of the local
population to work in their oil industry. Piles of detailed invoices
used by ISIS to calculate daily revenues from selling oil were found on
the site.

Local residents attested that intermediaries from Raqqa and
Aleppo arrived to pick up the oil and often mentioned Turkey, while a
captured ISIS recruit admitted on camera that the terrorist group sells
oil to Turkey. He and another foreign fighter from Saudi Arabia also
revealed that it had been easy to cross the Turkish border.

The
documentary contains exclusive footage from towns liberated from ISIS,
and features interviews with locals who had worked on ISIS oil
refineries as well as testimonies from the ISIS members captured by
Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) soldiers.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Nazi March in Ukraine

Around 100 members of the civil wing of the far-right Azov Battalion
held a torchlit march through the streets of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine,
to mark the 73rd anniversary of the formation of Ukraine's SS division,
which fought for the Nazis against the Soviet Union in World War II.

Corrupt Democratic Party Primaries Exposed Again

I Like This Place

A couple of years ago MB and I rented a cabin on the ocean in New Harbor, Maine for a week. Our friend Marian from around Boston joined us for a couple days. We took a ferry boat one morning out to nearby Monhegan Island and spent the day walking around the fishing and artist community.

While passing through one section of woods we saw a film crew at work. Marian said she thought one of the people with the crew was the actor Treat Williams....MB and I said, "Who the hell is Treat Williams?" It turns out Marian was right all along and the film in the trailer above looks like an interesting one.

Just goes to show Marian is up on popular culture alot more than MB and I. Thanks to Marian for sending the trailer link to us.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

What is Our Political Strategy Now?

Barring some unforeseen miracle from the heavens these will be the mainstream choices in America during next November's election. Bad and bad.....

I won't pull the lever for either of them. Some will vilify me, and others like me, for trying to put "Trump into the White House". What about the Supreme Court they will scream?

I will be voting for Jill Stein from the Green Party. She is solid on all the issues and gives me a chance to give my vote to someone who actually earned it and represents what I truly believe in.

I am not about to spend my entire adult life working for peace and justice and then turn around and vote for someone like Clinton who is hell bent to destroy everything I have worked for and gave my life to build. I would essentially be betraying everything I've ever stood for - it's just not going to happen.

Voting is a sacred right and I intend to keep my vote as clean as I possibly can.

It was the movements during the Great Depression that forced the Democrats into creating jobs (Civilian Conservation Corps), 40-hour work week, Social Security, regulation of the banks, and a whole lot more. Socialist, Communist and Populist parties never actually took power in Washington but the message from the grassroots was so strong that many of their demands actually become policy. We need that same strategy again - more than ever.

Today we have strong social movements across the nation calling for increased minimum wage, dealing with climate change, taxing the rich, health care for all, education for all, stopping endless war, ending police violence, and other vital issues. Bernie Sanders has been an important voice for many of those issues (though on military spending and endless war he has been weak). But the corporate controlled Democrats (and their media allies) have done their dirty work to suppress enough votes to slide Clinton into the position where she will now likely get the nomination.

(I urge folks in yet to be held primary states to keep working for Sanders but the wall of obstruction that has been erected to protect Hillary is taller than the Mexico border wall envisioned by Trump.)

What will be needed next is to move the Occupy momentum, that has driven the Sanders campaign, to another level - another vehicle - and that will be Jill Stein and the Greens. Once Hillary gets the nomination she will largely throw progressive issues under the bus as she moves back to her more comfortable rightward leaning home turf. Just like when Obama rode the anti-war fever into the White House, and then dropped it to continue the Bush II war program, Hillary will do the same.

Voting for Hillary will get us nothing but more corporate dominated government. Same with Trump. If you want to send shock waves into the hearts of the corporate oligarchy then vote for Stein and keep organizing.

Years ago I heard the voices from the corporate political parties say that they wanted to make elections so mean - so nasty - that the public would reject the idea of voting at all. It would be easier to rule if less people participated. So right on schedule we hear vast percentages of the public now parroting the line: "Why bother, it's a waste of your time. It's a rigged game."

That is a hard line of thought to argue with. But I am a believer in strategy. Giving up and walking away is not a strategy. It is the path to certain defeat and further chaos for the coming generations. I want to keep standing up for truth to the bitter end. So in this case I spend every day of my waking life fighting for peace and justice - elections are just one sliver of my overall work. But even with elections I want every ounce of energy I put into them to stand for something - to have some larger meaning.

See this short video below featuring right-winger Paul Weyrich as he made the case for reducing the numbers of people who actually vote so that the corporate oligarchic forces will have an easier time controlling everything. He is rubbing our faces into their strategy for control and domination of the planet. I am not about to surrender to these rich punks who don't care about the people or our Mother Earth.

I'm not going to vote for any of these corporate candidates... they were put in place to represent bankster interests while betraying the greater good. I won't vote for bad or bad.

Warning Graphic Content!

The United States Air Force and CIA assassinate targets in residential areas, at FUNERALS and WEDDINGS and routinely murder children, mothers and entire families. They do this in countries we have no declaration of war with or a recognized combat zone.

This video was made at Creech Air Force base where pilots have commanded drones that have executed many children.

At the annual SHUT DOWN CREECH protest (2016), the EEK TEAM (environmentally evolved Kids) performed what may be the pinnacle of "Die-Ins", the execution of a funeral procession. The number of funerals targeted by Creech fliers is unknown, similar to the actual number of weddings and other social and Spiritual events (yes...EVEN Mosques!).

This procession was the first of multiple actions on April 1st at three different gates of Creech Air Force Base. Twenty-seven people total were arrested during the day. The children were not arrested but the adult Angels that followed the procession were arrested and released later that evening.

The number of children murdered by US drones is in the high hundreds at least and maybe over one thousand. YOU, the TAXPAYER, PAY FOR IT.

It's Not True.....Let's Rewrite History

There's confusion in Washington over Obama's order to send an
extra 250 troops to Syria. The magician had repeatedly pledged to avoid
putting boots on the ground - although according to the State
Department, that's not the case.

It's clear that the empire of chaos is losing in its attempt to bring regime change to Syria - thus they need a new strategy and that always means more US 'boots on the ground'. But they can't admit that so they have to play word games which Washington is very good at doing.

Collective Action Needed to Stop Industrial Destruction of Planet

Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday; or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons; or that dancing around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”? Why are these solutions not sufficient? But most importantly, what can be done instead to actually stop the murder of the planet?

Today Ana Edwards,
representing the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), and Ray McGovern, a
former CIA analyst and now prominent peace activist, delivered a Statement
of Solidarity with Odessa to the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington,
D.C.

The statement calls on the governments of Ukraine, the United States
and the city of Odessa to ensure the civic rights of the people of Odessa to
hold a memorial program this coming May 2 to mark the second anniversary of the
massacre of 46 profederation activists in that city at the hands of rightwing
extremists. The memorial is being organized by the Mothers' Committee for May 2,
comprised of family members, friends and supporters of the murdered
activists.

The Solidarity Statement, signed by 139 human rights
organizations and activists from 20 countries in North America, Europe, Africa
and Asia, also supports the Mothers' Committee public call for the United Nations
Human Rights Committee to arrange an impartial investigation into the events of
May 2, 2014. Although the attack was videoed by numerous participants and
passersby, to date not one of the perpetrators has been brought to
justice.

The Solidarity Statement also announced that UNAC is sending a
delegation of U.S. human rights activists to monitor the May 2 memorial program
in Odessa. Other delegations will be present from France, Germany, Switzerland,
the Netherlands, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Israel and Sweden.

The
Solidarity Statement was received by an embassy staff member on behalf of the
Ukrainian ambassador.

Immediately after, Edwards and McGovern held a
press conference outside the embassy at which they read the solidarity statement
and answered questions from reporters. Media present included Tass News Agency
of Russia, RT (Russia Today) America, Channel One Russian TV and RTRTV, a
Russian language television station whose audience includes 50,000
subscribers in the New York City area. The Russian language is spoken by an
estimated 171 million people in 17 countries.

While no major Western
media were present, it is expected that the broad news coverage by major Russian
media will put pressure on other media outlets to cover the story of the May 2
memorial, the international solidarity campaign and the international
delegations that will be in Odessa on May 2 to monitor the memorial
program.

Ana Edwards is a founding member of UNAC and chairs the
Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project of the Defenders for Freedom,
Justice & Equality in Richmond, Va.

Ray McGovern is a former analyst
with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a prominent member of Veterans for
Peace and Cofounder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity.

The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) is a broad
alliance of U.S. justice and peace organizations founded in 2010. www.UNACpeace.org

Hersch: "I Don't Understand What the President is Doing"

President Obama has announced the deployment of 250 more Special
Operations troops to Syria in a move that nearly doubles the U.S.
presence in the country. This comes just days after the Obama
administration announced 217 more troops would be sent to Iraq to help
in the fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State.

As the U.S.
expands its presence in Iraq and Syria, Democracy Now speaks with the legendary
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who has just published a new
book titled "The Killing of Osama bin Laden." In the introduction, Hersh
writes: "It’s now evident, fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks, that
Obama’s foreign policy has maintained many of the core elements of the
Global War on Terror initiated by his predecessor—assassinations, drone
attacks, heavy reliance on special forces, covert operations and, in the
case of Afghanistan, the continued use of American ground forces in
combat. And, as in the years of Bush and Cheney, there has been no
progress, let alone victory, in the fight against terrorism."

Obama Back Tracks & Sends More Troops to Syria

Barack Obama confirmed plans to increase the
American troop presence in Syria by deploying an additional 250
personnel, bringing the total to 300. He said the troops would help
drive out the Islamic State terrorist group.

It's obvious to me that the US war team has determined that Russia's intervention in Syria was done much to stabilize the situation there. That was not in the plan. The goal as always been regime change in Syria. Thus Obama announces more troops in Syria to ensure that chaos returns to the beleaguered people there.

For more on the real story about what is going on in Syria I highly recommend an article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. See it here

What Do You Stand For?

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Turkey Shoot: Erdogan Policing Europe's Media

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a media rampage. His corrupt government, known to have been sheltering and funding ISIS with stolen Syrian oil, is now locking up and throwing out any domestic or international media that dares report on his government's outrageous actions.

British MP George Galloway told Sputnik: "This Erdogan regime has begun to go from bad to worse and it’s
difficult to see where it will all end, but effectively, Turkey is no
longer capable of being described as a democracy."

In recent days Erdogan has also deported German and Russian journalists as
well as jailed Turkish reporters for writing about his corrupt regime.

"They’re telling the truth," Galloway says, referring to the deported and detained journalists, "and it’s a truth that’s a very ugly one, which is that the Erdogan regime is up to its neck in the crimes that are being committed in Syria…Now the secret is out and now, in their ire, they are retaliating against any journalist they can lay their hands on."

"This is a war against all democratic freedoms in Turkey. And all right-thinking people should shun the Erdogan regime and stand-up in solidarity with the people who are being oppressed there. Whether journalists or human rights activists or merely those of the Kurdish ethnicity, this is a real storm being visited on the people of Turkey and those trying to work there." [There have been several reports in recent weeks that Turkish military
have been gunning down unarmed and helpless Syrian refugees.]

Even though Turkey is a key part of the NATO alliance, it seems unlikely the United States or any other Western powers will stand up against Erdogan’s increasingly fascist tactics.

"…They are hypocrites," Galloway says. "The reality is that Turkey is not a democracy. Therefore it should not even be a part of NATO."

A longstanding member of the West’s military alliance, Turkey is also using the ongoing refugee crisis to push for membership within the EU.

"So both NATO and the European Union are exposed, in all their hypocrisy, in relation to Erdogan’s regime."

Erdogan has dreams of recreating the Ottoman Empire and many believe is being egged on by the US-NATO endless war project. In their recent meeting Erdogan and Kiev-based Petro Poroshenko discussed 'retaking' Crimea from Russia. Reports are that the two warlords are shipping ISIS fighters into Ukraine to attack the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. They are also working together to militarize Crimean Tatars with the ultimate goal being to draw Russian into a shooting match with NATO.

Just this week Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian Parliament] Sergey Vysotsky, in a TV interview, said that now Ukraine and the West must unite to fight against a common enemy. "It is necessary to divide Russia," said Vysotsky.

"That's why our message to the international agenda, and our task, which now, unfortunately, is not solved, is the needed consolidation around the world for the dismantling of the current Russian state," he said.

The US-NATO have lined up their surrogates in Turkey and Ukraine to expand the effort to help bring regime change in Moscow. This insane policy will not only kill thousands more innocent civilians but is a obvious trigger for WW III.

Even during the height of the Cold War the US-NATO would never have made such a foolhardy play. Today though Washington-London-Paris-Brussels are under the spell of the neo-cons who don't seem concerned about anything other than control and domination on behalf of corporate capital.